Thanks for a very poignant and moving story, Tartanhiker.
I have not moved far from my roots as I live within day trip distance of Paisley, Scotland, where three of my four grandparents families came from and Lurgan, County Armagh, Ireland, where my fourth lineage comes from. Yet through my ancestry research I have come across many relations in Canada, USA, and Australia. Particularly so in the case of my Irish grandfather, whose four brothers and a sister all made the emigration to Canada where they now have many descendents.